The Idle System (A LitRPG series Book 7): Family, Pegaz [learn to read books txt] 📗

As they were talking, the door opened and a man walked in.

John knew it was Luke because he couldn’t see Luke in his Scan, so he knew he must have put on the Hide option.

He used his Immortal Eye on the man standing in the doorway just in case.

Luke Jordan

Rank: 9

Level: 1

Sin: 0

Oh, he’s reached Rank 9, too.

In the battlefield, he admitted to removing the controlled status that was there from my Soul Manipulation skill, but this was the first time I’ve seen that status disappear in my Immortal Eye skill.

“I knew you survived!” Luke spoke as soon as he saw John.

Looking at Brian, Luke asked him to leave for a while.

After Brian left, Luke continued, “The Sharing skill didn’t stop, so that must have meant that you survived.”

John smiled while shrugging his shoulders. “We don’t know if it stops sharing if one of us dies. I’ve come to ask what happened on your end after the war and check how the sect is after a decade and a half of you being in charge.”

“Took you this long to be interested in what happened?” Luke replied.

“I retired, so I didn’t need or want to know.” John leaned back in the seat. “But now, my daughter is all grown up and she’s become an immortal. I’ve also reached the highest point I can as an immortal, so I’m trying to find how to transcend.”

“When you figure out how to transcend, you’ll tell me when I reach the highest point, right?”

John nodded his head to answer him.

“Great.” Luke clapped his hands. “Well, when everybody got out of the battlefield safely, we all waited for you to come out.

“However, you never showed up, and when the teleport rune turned grey and disappeared, we knew the teleport rune on the battlefield had broken. That’s when everybody thought you were dead and only I thought differently because of the Share skill.

“After all that, high-ranking people from the Adventurers’ Guild came to figure out what happened. Most of the sect masters, family heads, and organisation leaders came personally and paid tribute to you when the truth came out, calling you humanity’s hero. They even built a statue of you where the teleport rune to the battlefield used to be.

“Leon then confessed everything that happened, including what he did towards losing the war. He was arrested and later found guilty in a military trial. He’s serving a hundred year sentence, but he shouted that he didn’t regret what he did since it was for his child.

“A lot of the soldiers under him were found guilty for prolonging the war, but we all know the Adventurers’ Guild is punishing them for keeping one part of how to transcend a secret from them. They’re only serving a fifty-year sentence since they were technically following orders.

“The Adventurers’ Guild tried confiscating any beastmen cores after the war, but when every mercenary, sect member, and army personnel banded together, they couldn’t do anything and dropped the subject not long after it started.

“Since then, they’ve been trying to figure out how to gain control over the elements without using beastmen cores, just like their ancestors once did.

“It makes sense because the war against the beastmen only started a few million years ago, but Transcendents were here billions or even trillions of years ago.

“Now that they know one part of what you need to transcend is gaining control of the elements, a lot of money and manpower have gone into research and human testing, but nothing has come out of it yet.

“Other than that, everything has been like it was before you retired. The only real difference is the planets that the Death Sect owned have been given away equally to all other sects, families, and organisations that were affected the most by the Death Sect’s actions as compensation.

“The Nobody Sect gained almost a thousand planets, too, and we’ve been using those planets to recruit talents, produce food, and other things the sect needs to grow.

“We’ve grown exponentially since you left because I’m aiming to do what you once said we should—have at least one assassin in every kingdom on every planet. We’ve covered over ninety percent of the universe already, and I think we’ll only need another three years to cover the rest.

“That’s all for the report. I want to ask something that’s been bugging me since the war. Your plan was to meet at the teleport rune as soon as the plane started shaking, so why weren’t you there? What happened?”

John laughed. “I made a huge mistake. My plan was to distort the plane with a small, black ball I obtained from the Anti-assassin Sect’s planet. But when I was fighting the beastman, it combined the elements together to form a much stronger attack, which shook the plane. That was the signal you saw, but it was that early signal that saved all your lives.

“It wasn’t until much later that I threw that black ball out which I had planned to be the signal, but it was much stronger than I thought.

“It took only a few minutes for the entire plane to warp after the ball appeared. It destroyed the teleport rune and I was trapped inside the plane, but thinking about the beastman’s trick, I combined the elements to create a strong enough attack to pierce a hole in that forcefield, allowing me to teleport away.

“After that, I went to my wife and child.”

I shouldn’t tell Luke about the Demon until after I’ve figured out how to ‘fuse’ with it like Sarah said.

“So, we survived by luck?” Luke asked.

John nodded and replied, “Yeah. Pure, dumb luck. Sorry I almost got you killed.”

Chapter 27: Space Travel

John and Luke spent the next hour talking.

After catching up, John told Luke it was time to leave.

After saying goodbye, John waited for Luke to leave before he opened up the universal map and after an hour of finding the closest planet to the centre of the universe his skill allowed